Survey on Rhetorical Figures

In this survey, we investigated over 40 papers that computationally detect lesser-known rhetorical figures beyond metaphor, irony, and sarcasm. During the research, we created a file containing all approaches with their details on models, language, performance scores, and many more. You can expand the table by clicking on the symbol on the right in the bottom corner.

The tables are additional materials to the paper titled: “Computational Approaches to the Detection of Lesser-Known Rhetorical Figures: A Systematic Survey and Research Challenges” with the authors Ramona Kühn, Jelena Mitrović, and Michael Granitzer. available on arxiv

Please cite

   @article{kuhn2024computational,
  title={Computational approaches to the detection of lesser-known rhetorical figures: A systematic survey and research challenges},
  author={K{\"u}hn, Ramona and Mitrovi{\'c}, Jelena and Granitzer, Michael},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16674},
  year={2024}
}

This table gives an overview of the detection approaches:

This table summarizes existing (annotated) datasets of rhetorical figures that we mentiond in the survey.

Figurename	Authors	Language	Sample Size	Source/Context
Alliteration	--	--	--	--
Antimetabole	gawryjolek2009automated	??	??	??
	java2015characterization	??	25	??
	dubremetz2015rhetorical	English	Available	Fiction, scientific articles, quotes from websites
Antithesis	zhu2022configure	Chinese	250	98 literary works (novels, prose)
	green2020towards	English	120	Extracted from dubremetz2015rhetorical
	kuhn2023hidden	German	??	Telegram COVID-19 chats
Euphemism	felt2020recognizing	English	??	List extension via Basilisk algorithm
	gavidia2022cats	English	??	GloWbE Corpus, online sources
	adewumi2021potential	??	2384	Idiomatic expressions dataset
Hyperbole	troiano2018computational	English	709	Web crawl and crowdsourcing (HYPO dataset)
	zhang2021mover	English	17862	HYPO dataset + online sources (HYPO-XL)
	zhu2022configure	Chinese	690	98 literary works (novels, prose)
	adewumi2021potential	??	48	Idiomatic expressions dataset
Litotes	mukherjee2017negait	English	??	Wikipedia articles on diseases
	yuan2017argumentative	Chinese	100	'The Analects of Confucius'
	paida2019double	Chinese	1360	Extension of yuan2017argumentative dataset
Meiosis	--	--	--	--
Metonymy	zhu2022configure	Chinese	603	98 literary works (novels, prose)
	markert2007semeval	English	??	SemEval 2007 Shared Task 8
	gritta2017vancouver	English	??	RELOCAR dataset (based on SemEval)
	zarcone2012logical	German	??	Online dataset
	mathews2020large	English	??	WIMCOR (Wikipedia-based)
Oxymoron	gawryjolek2009automated	??	49	??
	java2015characterization	--	--	--
	adewumi2021potential	??	48	Idiomatic expressions dataset
	la2020oxymorons	Italian	376	Translated English antonym list
	xu2023creative	English	??	Context-based interpretation (OCBI)
Isocolon	gawryjolek2009automated	??	62	??
	java2015characterization	??	62	??
Parallelism	chen2021jointly	Chinese	??	Literature, textbooks, microblogs, websites
	adewumi2021potential	??	64	Idiomatic expressions dataset
	zhu2022configure	Chinese	431	98 literary works (novels, prose)
	kuhn2023hidden	German	??	Telegram COVID-19 chats
Polyptoton	gawryjolek2009automated	??	??	??
Polysyndeton	gawryjolek2009automated	??	28	??
	java2015characterization	??	62	??
Rhetorical Questions	zhu2022configure	Chinese	1185	98 literary works (novels, prose)
	chen2021jointly	Chinese	??	Literature, textbooks, microblogs, websites
	morio2019revealing	??	??	Online forums, persuasive argumentation
Zeugma	medkova2021building	Czech	??	??